We investigate how university governance affects research output, measured by patenting and international university … research rankings. For both European and U.S. universities, we generate several measures of autonomy, governance, and … competition for research funding. We show that university autonomy and competition are positively correlated with university …

college growing faster than the number of spaces available--does not explain changing selectivity. The explanation is, instead …, that the elasticity of a student's preference for a college with respect to its proximity to his home has fallen … substantially over time and there has been a corresponding increase in the elasticity of his preference for a college with respect …

examples of national and regional rankings, using hand-collected data on 3,240 high-achieving students. Our statistical model … decision among colleges that have admitted him, he chooses which college "wins" in head-to-head competition. The model exploits … a college to manipulate. In contrast, it is easy to manipulate the matriculation rate and the admission rate, which are …

examples of national and regional rankings, using hand-collected data on 3,240 high- achieving students. Our statistical model … decision among colleges that have admitted him, he chooses which college "wins" in head-to-head competition. The model exploits … a college to manipulate. In contrast, it is easy to manipulate the matriculation rate and the admission rate, which are …

Philanthropy plays a major role in university-based scientific, engineering and medical research in the United States … income, university research funding from science philanthropy is $7Billion a year. This major contribution to U.S. scientific …

This paper analyzes how institutional differences affect university entrepreneurship. We focus on ownership of faculty … to own inventions from publicly funded research, whereas in Sweden, the professor privilege gives the university faculty …